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Gardeners who want the wow without the work will find plenty of ideas in Tracy DiSabato-Aust s new book, 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants. (Akron Beacon Journal )
This colorful guide gets right to the point, promoting the stars of the garden with a full-page close-up, a few smaller images, plus a fact and bio sheet highlighting why each deserves center stage in your garden. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer )
"DiSabato-Aust s experience with and passion for plants infuses every aspect of the book, from its engaging style to her discipline in keeping it short but thorough." (Oregonlive.com )
"It is sure to find a place on the shelf and in the heart of every gardener." (Marion Star )
"This is a must-have because it will tell you when and how to prune your perennials for better vigor and how to get them to bloom more than once a season where possible." (Caledonian Record )
"For those gardeners who love plants but lack the time to spend hours in the garden, this is an excellent book." (American Gardener )
"DiSabato-Aust is an approachable garden writer. She knows we all love to garden but that we have lots of demands on our time and need astute guidance, which she provides in this fantastic book." (Idaho Farm Bureau Quarterly )
"This is a great book for novice gardeners or homeowners who wish to beautify their home with care-free plants." (Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas )
This colorful guide gets right to the point, promoting the stars of the garden with a full-page close-up, a few smaller images, plus a fact and bio sheet highlighting why each deserves center stage in your garden. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer )
"DiSabato-Aust s experience with and passion for plants infuses every aspect of the book, from its engaging style to her discipline in keeping it short but thorough." (Oregonlive.com )
"It is sure to find a place on the shelf and in the heart of every gardener." (Marion Star )
"This is a must-have because it will tell you when and how to prune your perennials for better vigor and how to get them to bloom more than once a season where possible." (Caledonian Record )
"For those gardeners who love plants but lack the time to spend hours in the garden, this is an excellent book." (American Gardener )
"DiSabato-Aust is an approachable garden writer. She knows we all love to garden but that we have lots of demands on our time and need astute guidance, which she provides in this fantastic book." (Idaho Farm Bureau Quarterly )
"This is a great book for novice gardeners or homeowners who wish to beautify their home with care-free plants." (Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas )
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Tracy DiSabato-Aust has taught thousands of readers how to design and maintain their gardens. Her first book -- The Well-Tended Perennial Garden -- is Timber's best-selling title and widely considered the bible of perennial maintenance. 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants is packed with useful tips, practical hints, and Tracy's own gardening experience. It is sure to find a place on the shelf and in the heart of every gardener. Tracy has identified 50 show-stopping plants that anyone can grow. Each selection is a dynamic choice for nearly every garden. Even better? All 50 plants have passed Tracy's test for toughness, beauty, and durability. These are Tracy's personal favorites, chosen after years of studying how to make beautiful outdoor spaces with a minimum of maintenance.
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Tracy Does It Again,
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This review is from: 50 Favorite Plants for High-Impact Gardens: Tough-But-Beautiful Plants That Anyone Can Grow (Paperback)
Easy care plants that require little or no maintenance are favorites of mine.Like many other people, time is a rare commodity for me and I must manage it wisely, even in my own garden. Every now and then I focus on a perennial that I have been growing for many years. I marvel how easy it is to care for and how well it blooms, even when neglected. Perennial gardeners wish that all of their plants would behave like that. Nature, however, only cooperates with us to a limited extent. It requires research to learn about such plants and it is reassuring to discover that some garden writers are doing that work for us.With the publication of this book, Tracy Disabato-Aust has given us a gift. For the novice gardener, the author supplies a list of plants that will help create an eye-catching low-maintenance garden. The seasoned gardener, on the other hand, may discover several plants previously ignored but still worthy of consideration. The reader should bear in mind that the plant list comes with the usual restrictions based on the amount of sunlight and humidity available in ones garden as well as recommended hardiness zones. According to the author, and we gardeners are all in agreement, a plant must exhibit the following five characteristics to be considered high impact:- Multi seasonal interest Colorful foliage Long lasting bloom Outstanding texture Architectural form In addition, there are 12 traits that the author looks for in evaluating low-maintenance plants. Each of the 50 mentioned in this book demonstrate at least 10 out of the 12 traits: Long lived Tolerance for heat and humidity Cold hardy Deer resistant Insect and disease resistant Minimal or no deadheading Thrives without heavy fertilization Requires no staking Infrequent or no division required for four years or more Infrequent or no pruning required to maintain neat appearance or best flowering Non-invasive Drought tolerant. This is a very welcome publication because the topic contributes to the dialogue on sustainable gardening. There is a movement in the landscape community to try and develop gardens that require very little resources such as water or fertilizer and that require almost no maintenance to keep them alive. The list of plants in this publication addresses these issues admirably. Another welcome trait of this book is the opportunity offered to the reader to discover important plants that might have been overlooked. This reviewer was delighted to learn about a cultivar of a perennial that is hardly known in the gardening community. It is called Thalictrum Erin. I have always been a Thalictrum fan and I grow a lot of it in my garden. But I have never seen anything quite like this one. It is the tallest of all Thalictrum, growing up to 96 inches in height without staking and yet never exceeding 36 inches in width. My "eureka" moment occurred as soon as I found this information in the book. Now, I need to find this plant for my garden. In order to understand how Ms, Disabato-Aust compiled the list of 50 plants; it is helpful to study her style of landscaping. Hers are exquisitely designed gardens that are not just flower beds but are, instead, foliage and textural compositions that include shrubs, trees and perennials. All of the plants used in the authors work are chosen for the synergistic effect they have on the viewer when seen as a whole. The reader should feel confident that by selecting from her list, it is possible to create an attractive garden. Tracy Disabato-Aust has earned international acclaim as one of America's most entertaining and knowledgeable garden writers and professional speakers. This book is just one of her many accomplishments. Allan Becker reviews books for [...]
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Highly recommended for urban gardeners, novice gardeners, and no-fuss gardeners!,
By M. Lapus "@ Starting Fresh blog" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 50 Favorite Plants for High-Impact Gardens: Tough-But-Beautiful Plants That Anyone Can Grow (Paperback)
Review: 50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants:Tough-but-Beautiful Plants Anyone Can Grow by Tracy Disabato-Aust As a novice gardener, I am drawn to gardening books with a judicious mix of beautiful pictures and helpful advice. This book caught me with its opening: I wrote this book because you might be like me. You love to garden, but there is never enough time...I've been a gardener for over thirty years both as an avocation and vocation. I love gardening but I also have countless other passions including spending time with my husband, our teenage son, and our dogs and chickens, as well as being a competitive multisport athlete at the national and international level. So I'm constantly rethinking areas of my garden and seeking beautiful yet tough plants to replace demanding ones. I refer to them affectionately as indomitable - not easily defeated, resolute, unconquerable, determined, and strong. Does this sound like the type of plant for you? These plants should be easy to care for but they should bring passion and excitement into our lives with their colors, textures, shapes, and scents. It's great if the plant is easy to grow, but if it's of minimal ornamental value, who really cares? -50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants by Tracy Disabato-Aust Disabato-Aust selected 50 highly ornamental plants that require minimal care and are either US natives or award winners from around the world. Each plant is able to make a statement in multiple seasons because of its long lasting bloom, color, texture, form or fragrance. I'm particularly glad of this selection process since as an urban gardener, I am limited to container gardening. Even in Brooklyn, space is scarce and valuable - I afford to allocate space to non-performing plants. Disabato-Aust points out that color doesn't just come from the blossoms, but to encourages us to look at the plant's bark and foliage and fruit as well. The book is full of helpful advice both for selecting plants and for caring for individual specimens. Disabato-Aust developed a very useful checklist for evaluating plants and divides them into High-Impact Traits and Low-Maintenance Traits. The High-Impact Traits are: (1) multi-season interest; (2) colorful foliage; (3) long-lasting bloom; (4) outstanding texture; (5) and architectural form. The Low-Maintenance Traits are: (1) long-lived; (2) tolerant of heat and humidity; (3) cold-hardy; (4) deer resistant (not so critical for us urban gardeners); (5) resistant to insects and disease; (6) requires minimal or no deadheading; (7) prospers without heavy fertilizing; (8) doesn't require staking, infrequent or no division required for 4 or more years; (9) infrequent or no pruning required to maintain decent habit, appearance or best flowering; (10) non-invasive; and (11) drought tolerant. The beauty of this gardening book is that you can flip through its pages for a plant that catches your eye and then determine whether it would be a fit for your and your garden. I was surprised to find many of the beautiful specimens that I'd admired to be low maintenance and the book has given me ideas for both for my garden, my mother's small garden unit in Boston's South End, and my uncle's large place in Gloucester. I highly recommend this book for urban gardeners, novice gardeners, and gardeners who would like to spend less time tending plants and more time enjoying them. It's a great gift book as well. 18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants,
By Matthew W. Schultz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 50 Favorite Plants for High-Impact Gardens: Tough-But-Beautiful Plants That Anyone Can Grow (Paperback)
I had the opportunity to hear the author talk about "50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants" at the 2009 Ohio Nursery & Landscape Association and The Ohio State University Short Course. I especially appreciated that she included woodies as well as perennials in the talk as well as in this book. The book is the perfect addition to any designer's library of reference material. The selection of plants is a virtual "Who's Who" of tough, dependable horticultural fare and opened my palette to some new or underused plants as well. I have already recommended the book as well as the plants to several co-workers.
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50 High Impact, Low Care Garden Plants,
By Beth Daye "Coneflower" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: 50 Favorite Plants for High-Impact Gardens: Tough-But-Beautiful Plants That Anyone Can Grow (Paperback)
This book is incredible. Easy to read. Enjoyable. Beautifully illustrated. I recently moved to a new city and plan to use "50 High Impact, Low Care Garden Plants" to select the plants I'll use in my new gardens. I thank Tracy DiSabato-Aust for again sharing her amazing knowledge. I own all three of her books and I treasure them.
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